Tabloid insert slitter



Nov. 3, 1931.v H. A. w. WOOD 1,830,416

TABLOID INSERT SLITTER Original Filed Deg. 29, 1926 z lmpaeper' 5- w A7/zre% ,2: a sociated parts of afolding mechanism-pro- Patented Nov. 3, -1 931 v 5: ,;.':-i-:

HENRYA. WISE WOOD, or NEW YORK,

CHINERY CORPORATION,

Assamese w ol I newsman niion NEW YORK 1,1 IA conro'nnrron or VIRGINIA" TABLOID msnnrgsnirrnn i I Applicationmea December 29, 1926, Seria1 No. 1 5 77 1 2.f; n newea' na casi, 1931.

' This invention relatesto the printing of a newspaper having tabloid inserts or sections.

The principal object of the invention is to i I provide means whereby a web in which alternate standard newspaper pages and tabloid pages are printed, can be slit in the machine so that a product will be obtained consisting of a certain number of jstandardnewspaper pages'and a tabloid section of twice that number of tabloid pages. Such a product has been' obtained before by assembling the same by hand. The object of this invention is to accomplish it automaticallyvwithout any hand operation. More specifically the invention involves a slitter operated during the time the tabloid pages pass under it and inoperative during the ,timeth'e standard newspaper'pages pass under it so that 'the'tabloid pages are slit into twicethe number of sheets tion will appear hereinafter. 4

as the standard newspaper pages.

Other objects and advantages of the inven- Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings in which v I Fig. 1 is a front view of the former andasvided with a slitter constructed in accordance with this invention;

' 1 7 Fig.2 is aside view of'the same; and

I modified form.

Fig. 3 is a corresponding side view of a This invention relates to' the production of I that type of newspaper in which a tabloid section is associatedwith the regular newspaper section as it isfrequently done by hand. A folder is provided with a slitter for the tabloid sections which slits the web in the center usually. Such a slitter is not needed for a standard newspaper section on account of the difference in size of the two products.

, In this case the plates on theplate cylinder are arranged so that the first sheet is printed in tabloid form and the second in the standard newspaper form. This invention is designed to slit alternate papers thus printed into page widths to provide the usual tabloid sheets while the succeeding ones are left unslit to provide standard sheets.

, v In the form. shown in Figs. 1 and 2; the web printed as above indicated is run as usual :other words,

, Lthe'slitter; other half into the former.

over the drag roll and a slitter 10 islocated inpositionto slit the sheet as it'comesithrough toithe-former belowa Theshaft 1:1 of the slitter 10 is provided with agear12 which is-driven from some other part of the. machine at such a rate that the slitter 10 will turn enactly with the plate cylinderd In This slitter is provided with'a cutting .13 extendingaroun'd 'justh'alf of its periphcry, therest of its circumference beingwith loutia sharpedge and preferably on a' smaller radius; Thisslitter ordin'arily'is placed in the center of the formerand in line with what is generally the center margin of the standard newspapen- 7 I The-circumference of the slitter'in this case is equalyto the width of the two" newspaper pages sotthat as the 'slitte'r turns, it willcut through a whole tabloid section whichis'ar rangedwith the'columns running lengthwise :of-the-cylinder:

Then 'flwhen the standard newspaper page comes into registration with it willnot: cutit on accountof the ofithe slitterbeing without a cut :ting edge. The standard page with the "columns running around the" printing cylinder will .go through as usual without atithis point; I vtheslit'is along the head and bottom margins 'oflthe twoa'djacent'pages instead of the center? margin; but it will be understood that these arein registration with each other along the: web.

-.2- After .the web'thus-slit intermittently passes over the former,

it passes between the foldi'n'g cylinder '15 and the'cutting cylinder 16 which will cut the 'newspapensection apart its surface runs 'at'web speed.

edge 3 being slit EWhen the tabloid sheet is slit, 4

from theYtabloidTsectienand' fbld the latter The subsequent half page newspaper fold produced in the usual way will give the newspaper pages their half page fold and the tabloid pages their full page fold. A product is delivered therefore which r consists of both types of pages assembled uniformly and with no manual labor.

Of course this principle can be carried out in other forms and I have shown one of them in Fig. 3. In this case the only difference is in the slitter. The slitter 20 has a cutting L r a '1,sso,41e

- edge 23 entirely aroundit and is looated on a-shaft 21 which is arranged to rotate at any convenient speed and is supported in a pair of arms 27 keyed to a shaft 28. On this-is fixed an'arm having a cam roller 29 and a.

springBQl for forcing it toward-aecam :31. This camlis operated from-the gpress ortfol'der to run turn for turn with the plate eylinder. I

This camis equipped with a high portion 32 :an -eneihaiiteits periphery and 'w ith a w p0rti'ononi-. i ,-h ther ll-alf; l'fhis will cailise the slitter to be lowered into engagement with the drag roller during one. half of the rota-7 tion of the plate eylinderg, in other words, during the passage of one'half of-a complete gproduetof fihe-iplate cylinder. ltisli-ftediout ofengagementduring-the ro'ther half. This f has the sameiefiect as the-form shown-'iniEigs.

Land 2,- the-s1itter :beingioperative while the r tabloid; pagesgpassgnnderzit andinoperative when the standard neivvspapen pages Passmb fderrit. l v V .e

zBothpfthesefoi'insxconstitnte simple means ior, mechanically @slitting and assembling newspaper products;part-standardzandtpart tabloid.

. :Although I'haveillustratedandzdescribed i onl'yltwo form's vofthewinvjention' .I am aware dfi-theafactthat inedi-fications'rcan be -made thereinby-any personrskilled in :the art without departing frolnthe scope of theeinye-ntion [as-expressediin%theiclairns. T herefore, I do :notwish-tobe lirni ted toall thezdetails of onstruction-hereinshownand .descrihed,-lo11t what Ldo "clainris zo a15inaa newspapereprintingzznaehine fold zer t heeomhination-with' means for vguiding :a

'webto aioldingdev-ice, the-webhavingalternate size and "tabloid printed x-pages of aslitter arranged at the'xcenter zo'fthewebzand means-for ,:-peri0dieallymovingthe slitter bank :afiddE-Orth-EWSlit-the tabloi'dppagesbut-notizhe I rf nll sizedf page's;

9 In :a e-n'ewspap er, fielding machine, ithe =.eornbinationwvithethez-dnagroll'and-iormer, .of aqfold ing device with i3, bodily movah'leenotaryeslitter associated therewith :for slit- -ting:the= web,, -an d meansi'for ld'r awingetheaslitter out of contact with the web periodically :andamaintaining: it 0.11mi contactforeai pre- J determinedperiod-ofetirne 1 v In itestimony whereof haye 'herennto'iaffixedmy signature.

JHENRY'A. WISE Woon." 

